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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capital Weather Gang thinks you're all a-holes.  :lol:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1484257500417384452[/twitter]
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And they’re right.[/quote]

Agreed. I’ve worked in APS long enough to remember parents complaining about the call to delay or close coming in too late (I remember getting one at 6 am…and plenty of parents on this board were livid and swore APS hated their children.) APS listened and now makes calls the night before in order to meet parents’ requests for time to make arrangements, and it’s not enough for some.

I also remember the time that we were the only school district open during a similar tricky forecast…and it actually snowed. There was a bus accident that day, and at least one special needs bus was stuck on the road filled with a few special needs kids that started to have meltdowns. I also remember another time when we were the only ones to open, and the roads weren’t treated. My commute and others were doubled that day…and I had coworkers who had to leave their cars down the road and walk in.

Districts rely on weather professionals to make forecasts. They make decisions based on the information they have at the time that are aligned with policies put in place, such as the evening deadline to get a decision out to the community. Was today a bad call? Should kids be in school? Yes…but the blame should be on the meteorologists, not the school leadership.[/quote]

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